Tariff exposure
How exposed is your product to U.S. sourcing and tariffs?
MapleBOM reads your bill of materials and shows which components, suppliers and purchasing dollars create foreign sourcing exposure — including the lines with no country of origin on file at all.
MapleBOM does not calculate tariff liability, and nothing here is a regulatory determination. It gives you what every tariff calculation needs first: an accurate, honest picture of reported origin across your BOM.
BOM uploads are analyzed transiently in memory and are not retained. How this works
The problem
The tariff question always stalls in the same place.
Somebody asks what a tariff change costs you. The answer needs origin and classification for every affected line. What exists is a BOM with a country column that is a third empty, a broker who has some of it, and a week of emails. By the time you have a number, the question has moved on.
Origin drives duty, not your supplier
A part bought from a Canadian distributor can be manufactured anywhere. Duty follows the factory, not the invoice.
The gaps are where the risk hides
The lines with no recorded origin are exactly the ones you cannot model. They are usually not the cheap ones.
Classification comes after origin
HS codes only help once you know what you are classifying and where it came from. Most BOMs have neither on every line.
The core output
Start with the lines you cannot answer for.
MapleBOM ranks every component with no established origin by the money attached to it — the exact lines that would break a tariff model.
In the sample analysis, 480 components have no established country of origin — but 10 supplier conversations would account for 80% of that exposure.
Unresolved origin, ranked by spend
Sample| Component | Supplier | Annual purchasing |
|---|---|---|
| Skid frame assembly, welded and m… | Ironwood Structural Compo… | $157,233 |
| Variable frequency drive, 75 kW 4… | Trillium Automation Supply | $69,707 |
| Servo drive, 1.5 kW dual axis | Trillium Automation Supply | $61,917 |
| Guarding package, perimeter fence… | Bluewater Enclosure Syste… | $60,869 |
| Panel air conditioner, 1200 W 480… | Meridian Electrical Supply | $51,269 |
| Conveyor module, 3 m belt section… | Ironwood Structural Compo… | $49,693 |
What you get
A prioritized exposure view of one product, in about ten seconds.
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Find the focus rows
Components ranked by covered annual spend, with the evidence and next fact behind each priority.
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Separate the evidence
Reported origin and supplier country shown as separate views, with Unknown / Unverified kept visible instead of inferred.
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Leave with a worklist
Missing economic inputs, supplier concentration and downloadable rows make the next conversation finite.
What MapleBOM will not do
Provenance is only useful if it is true. These are the rules the analysis follows, without exception:
- We never infer country of origin from a supplier, manufacturer, distributor or company nationality. Buying a part from a Canadian distributor does not make it Canadian.
- Anything the file does not establish is reported as Unknown / Unverified, with the reason it is unresolved.
- Country values we cannot interpret are surfaced, not silently dropped or guessed.
- V0 makes no CUSMA, tariff, Canadian-content or Buy Canadian determination. Those require rules and evidence this tool does not yet have.
- Facts you supplied, figures we calculated, and information nobody has are labelled separately throughout.
Future research Show four optional questions
These capabilities are not built. The current product is the Supply Chain Exposure analysis above.
Tariff exposure
Understand which components and purchasing categories may be affected by changing tariffs.
Calculate tariff exposure → Private betaCanadian content and CUSMA
Identify documentation gaps and the components that would need deeper qualification.
Analyze Canadian content → Private betaCanadian supplier alternatives
Discover foreign components that may have Canadian manufacturing or sourcing alternatives.
Find Canadian suppliers → Private betaResolving unverified origins
Track evidence and supplier attestations for the components nobody can currently vouch for.
Resolve unknown origins →None of these are built. Clicking one tells us which capability you want, not what you would get back — no figure anywhere else in MapleBOM depends on one that does not exist. The current report remains the Supply Chain Exposure analysis shown above.
Built in Canada
An independent project.
MapleBOM is built by Tyson Hamilton, a Canadian software engineer building better trade and supply-chain tools for Canadian manufacturers.
It is early, and deliberately narrow: it reports what your bill of materials establishes, and says plainly what it does not.
Questions, feedback, or interested in trying MapleBOM with your own data?
hello@maplebom.caSee where your BOM needs attention.
Upload a CSV and get the same prioritized Supply Chain Exposure view for your product.